Did you know that Oklahoma City is home to one of the nation’s largest firefighter museums? Located east of the OKC Zoo in the Adventure District, the 10,000-square-foot Oklahoma Firefighters Museum and Fallen and Living Firefighters Memorial Complex includes exhibits of the Oklahoma fire service; antique fire apparatus and equipment dating back to the mid-1700s; and over a dozen...
Your Financial Checklist
An end-of-year financial checklist will look a little different for everyone. This can be a great time to look at your overall financial health, goals and planning. But keeping an eye toward reducing your tax responsibilities is a major theme that should weave throughout your end-of-year review.
“Year-end is your last chance to get several financial tasks wrapped...
In the wake of canceled flights, postponed events and a bevy of other broken plans, Thanksgiving shouldn’t be a time to be alone or away from loved ones.
It’s clear many vulnerable members of society – those at an advanced age or those who are immunocompromised – won’t be able to hop on flights or welcome large groups into their...
The Rev. Robert Turner, Ph.D., doesn’t mind admitting he’s tired. For more than a year, the senior pastor of Greenwood’s Historic Vernon Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, and many of his congregants, have been burning the candle at both ends.
It started with the pandemic, which robbed church members of employment and, generally, added to the stress level of many...
With light wood, green accents, floor-to-ceiling windows and ample indoor and outdoor dining, Riviere Modern Banh Mi in central OKC is as beautiful as its menu is delicious.
You’ll likely visit the restaurant the first time for its namesake sandwiches, all of which have punny names and are served on 8-inch French baguettes. You can’t go wrong with any of...
What do you get when you mix a little Beverly Hills with a little Caribbean island? St. Barthélemy, known as St. Barth to the French and St. Barts to Americans. No matter what you call it, it’s indisputably the posh headquarters of the Caribbean. Although it’s known for being a French locale, the capital town of Gustavia actually has...
Momentum: Tulsa runs April 2-23 at Living Arts. This interactive, multimedia arts exhibition features only Oklahoma artists, all ages 30 and under. Revisionist Future is on display through April 24 at ahha. The showcase highlights Tulsa’s community of black entrepreneurs and strives to spread a message of inclusion.
If you’d prefer to stay home, Signature Symphony walks patrons through musical...
Author Carmen Fields prefaces Going Back to T-Town, a fine new book about her Tulsa-based band leading father, Ernie Fields, with lyrics from a well-known song written by another musical Oklahoman, Elk City native Jimmy Webb. The lines, from the Webb composition “Didn’t We,” are all about trying and not quite succeeding, ending with the question, “Didn’t we almost...
Black leather banquettes. Tables with starched white linens. Waiters in shirt and tie. Large chandeliers with crystals glittering. A prawn bigger than a dinner plate perched atop jalapeño pesto.
This is Prossimo Ristorante, new on Tulsa’s Cherry Street. Owner Jim Bausch, who also runs pizza behemoth Andolini’s, says Prossimo’s appearance is all by design.
“If we’re going to do fine dining,”...
Bruce G. Weber Precious Jewels is a name with which many native Tulsans and newcomers alike have become familiar.
Customers have patronized its Utica Square location for decades as they’ve celebrated life’s simple or grand milestones. Generations of jewelry purchases have crossed the counter from friendly salesperson to excited buyer.
The jewelry store is expanding in size and merchandise, and with...
